Re: elevator messages in 2.3.50

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Thu Mar 09 2000 - 18:09:01 EST


On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote:

>I don't know how you reach this conclusion. Can you explain?
>
>I can see that if you never receive requests during holdoff then of
>course you lose. [..]

You answered your question yourself.

Consider the worst case of the heuristic. Its worts case is definitely the
common simple case. Harming it is a no way IMHO.

Andrea

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